Tom Ross

vegan for the animals • head of product • all views my own etc. 🌞🌲🌱

[Tom Ross @tomross]

@zachpogrob no way surely not

[Tom Ross @tomross]

@jennineak thats because the third spaces exist in the morning rather than the night, and whenever ive explored melb and sydney at night there's always plenty things going on with all cultures mixing and do their thing - not sure what you're looking for here really?

[Space Koala @SpaceKoala]

I want a city on Mars and a robot butler.

I want clean water, and at least two habitable planets.

I want to see humanity flourish while preserving the Earth for generations to come.

[Tom Ross @tomross]

@Aella_Girl Not a ring but @Heypocket pretty much does this

[Austen Allred @Austen]

Somebody has to be the richest person on the planet.

The fact that it’s the guy who popularized electric cars, made rockets reusable, and is working on curing blindness and paraplegia as a side quest seems fair to me.

[ApoStructura @ApoStructura]

To get a sense of scale, here’s how the $85.7b SpaceX just raised compares to what they’ve historically spent on different programs.

People aren’t ready for the magnitude of things to come

[Tom Ross @tomross]

The SpaceX share price is the most optimism pilled thing I’ve seen in quite a while

Bravo @elonmusk

[Tom Ross @tomross]

Yes it is more complicated than an economics class, but Elon being worth 1 trillion means he has achieved this by creating and acquiring PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX, X, Neuralink…

All of these companies provide tremendous value to millions of people, which is why they’re valued so highly, and why he is therefore valued so highly

Elon owning Tesla does not make other people poorer, he’s normalised electric cars, driven demand for electric cars which has spawned jobs around the world in infrastructure and construction.

If Elon getting richer made people poorer, I would expect the average person to be poorer than the medieval times. Is that the case?

[Tom Ross @tomross]

@zachpogrob Let’s goooo 🚀

[Tom Ross @tomross]

@ByEddieFerns @KonstantinKisin How does someone getting wealthier mean someone else has to get poorer?! Please explain…

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward.

I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress.

When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment.

Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks.

They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around.

Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits?

The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.

[Tom Ross @tomross]

Really interesting read

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

https://t.co/vLmiBKTtX3

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

> you’ll never start a rocket company
> you’ll never build your own engines
> you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts
> you’ll never survive three launch failures
> you’ll never reach orbit
> you’ll never win NASA’s trust
> you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS
> you’ll never compete with Boeing
> you’ll never compete with Lockheed
> you’ll never make rockets reusable
> you’ll never land a rocket vertically
> you’ll never land one on a drone ship
> you’ll never reuse a booster
> you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times
> you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing
> you’ll never lower launch costs
> you’ll never launch every month
> you’ll never launch every week
> you’ll never launch multiple times a week
> you’ll never carry astronauts
> you’ll never replace Roscosmos
> you’ll never fly civilians to orbit
> you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale
> you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever
> you’ll never make satellite internet work
> you’ll never make satellite internet fast
> you’ll never make satellite internet affordable
> you’ll never serve rural customers
> you’ll never serve aircraft and ships
> you’ll never build a methane rocket engine
> you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work
> you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever
> you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V
> you’ll never build it out of stainless steel
> you’ll never launch Starship
> you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship
> you’ll never relight Raptor in space
> you’ll never bring Super Heavy back
> you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms
> you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide
> you’ll never change the economics of space
> you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you
> you’ll never win
> you’ll never IPO

Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.

Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.

[signüll @signulll]

almost everyone reads this list as wealth hoarded.

it’s the opposite. each name here is a rounding error on the surplus they unleashed on to the world through both the peripheral individuals (employees, investors, etc) involved & the compounding value of their creation to society in general (which allows others to also pursue greatness).

[Tom Ross @tomross]

I bought shares in spacex because why wouldn’t I?

[Tom Ross @tomross]

@BuyEnglishMade @JAU_4 @elonmusk @MadeInEngland I don’t think you need a business account, just premium+, costs £30 a month

[Tom Ross @tomross]

@felixrieseberg There’s a @jimseven video idea in here somewhere :)

[Tom Ross @tomross]

Can confirm it’s absolutely insane

[Tom Ross @tomross]

Claude Fable better be good man

[Tom Ross @tomross]

@zachpogrob Tom

[Tom Ross @tomross]

Claude Fable better be good man